100 vultures die after feeding on ‘poisoned’ carcass

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100 vultures die after feeding on `poisoned' carcass

From Our Correspondent

HATSINGIMARI, April 24 – In a rather shocking incident that depicts

how low humans can stoop, over a 100 vultures died after feeding on

the carcass of a cow, which was sprayed with a poisonous insecticide

and medicine used for killing insects in paddy fields.

 

It is reported that a cow of a local farmer of Kharuabanda village

here died on Wednesday and it was thrown in a grassland near the

village called Balirtak on Thursday night. It was known that a

number of vultures would come to eat the flesh of the dead cow. So

some irresponsible person sprayed poisonous insecticide and medicine

used for killing insects into the flesh of the dead cow just

to `savour' the dying moments of the vultures. As a result, more

than a hundred large vultures, that immensely help to maintain the

balance of nature by eating up the rotten flesh, died on the spot.

 

This correspondent noticed more than sixty dead vultures lying

scattered around the dead cow. The conscious people suspected that a

large number of foxes, dogs, kites and crows may die after consuming

the poisonous flesh of the dead cow. One of the dead vulture weighed

five kg.

 

It is known to all that the number of vultures is lessening day by

day due to some natural factors. So, if man also starts to kill

these endangered animals, it will adversely affect nature and itself.